Epidemiologic and phylogenetic analysis of the 2018 west Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in Israel demonstrates human infection of WNV lineage I

Yaniv Lustig; Ruslan Gosinov; Neta Zuckerman; Yael Glazer; Laor Orshan; Danit Sofer; Eli Schwartz; Gili Schvartz; Yigal Farnoushi; Avishai Lublin; Oran Erster; Uri Shalom; Tamar Yeger; Orna Mor; Emilia Anis; Ella Mendelson

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.1.1800662

Epidemiologic and phylogenetic analysis of the 2018 west Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in Israel demonstrates human infection of WNV lineage I

Yaniv Lustig
, Ruslan Gosinov
, Neta Zuckerman
, Yael Glazer
, Laor Orshan
, Danit Sofer
, Eli Schwartz
, Gili Schvartz
, Yigal Farnoushi
, Avishai Lublin
, Oran Erster
, Uri Shalom
, Tamar Yeger
, Orna Mor
, Emilia Anis
, Ella Mendelson

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Abstract

As at 12 November 2018, an outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) was responsible for 139 WNV infection cases in Israel. Here, we characterise the epidemiology of the outbreak and demonstrate that only WNV lineage I was circulating in mosquitoes and responsible for WNV infection in humans. This suggests that the concurrence of the outbreak in Israel with WNV outbreaks in several European countries is not due to a common, more virulent WNV genotype.

Original language	English
Article number	1800662
Journal	Eurosurveillance
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.1.1800662
State	Published - 3 Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Virology

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Lustig, Y., Gosinov, R., Zuckerman, N., Glazer, Y., Orshan, L., Sofer, D., Schwartz, E., Schvartz, G., Farnoushi, Y., Lublin, A., Erster, O., Shalom, U., Yeger, T., Mor, O., Anis, E., & Mendelson, E. (2019). Epidemiologic and phylogenetic analysis of the 2018 west Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in Israel demonstrates human infection of WNV lineage I. Eurosurveillance, 24(1), Article 1800662. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.1.1800662

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Epidemiologic and phylogenetic analysis of the 2018 west Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in Israel demonstrates human infection of WNV lineage I

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